A magnitude 5.8 quake on Wednesday rocked Melbourne and demolished part of a restaurant on the city s famous Chapel Street - with residents as far away as Sydney feeling the tremors.
A leading seismologist says one of the factors that led to 13 people dying in the 1989 Newcastle earthquake could have killed people on Chapel Street in Melbourne during Wednesday s quake.
Incredible footage of the Melbourne earthquake has been captured by a fitness fanatic filming his morning workout. The quake is the biggest since European settlement in 1834.
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